Prediction of Malignancy and Pathological Types of Solid Lung Nodules on CT Scans Using a Volumetric SWIN Transformer.

Lung adenocarcinoma and squamous cell carcinoma are the two most common pathological lung cancer subtypes. Accurate diagnosis and pathological subtyping are crucial for lung cancer treatment. Solitary solid lung nodules with lobulation and spiculation signs are often indicative of lung cancer; howev...

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Publicado en:Journal of Imaging Informatics in Medicine Vol. 38; no. 3; pp. 1509 - 1518
Autores principales: Chen, Huicong, Wen, Yanhua, Wu, Wensheng, Zhang, Yingying, Pan, Xiaohuan, Guan, Yubao, Qin, Dajiang
Formato: diagnostic images equations & formulas research tables/charts Journal Article
Publicado: Springer Nature Jun2025
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          Chen, Huicong
          Wen, Yanhua
          Wu, Wensheng
          Zhang, Yingying
          Pan, Xiaohuan
          Guan, Yubao
          Qin, Dajiang
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          Lung Neoplasms Diagnosis
          Lung Neoplasms Classification
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          Solitary Pulmonary Nodule Radiography
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      ab: Lung adenocarcinoma and squamous cell carcinoma are the two most common pathological lung cancer subtypes. Accurate diagnosis and pathological subtyping are crucial for lung cancer treatment. Solitary solid lung nodules with lobulation and spiculation signs are often indicative of lung cancer; however, in some cases, postoperative pathology finds benign solid lung nodules. It is critical to accurately identify solid lung nodules with lobulation and spiculation signs before surgery; however, traditional diagnostic imaging is prone to misdiagnosis, and studies on artificial intelligence-assisted diagnosis are few. Therefore, we introduce a volumetric SWIN Transformer-based method. It is a multi-scale, multi-task, and highly interpretable model for distinguishing between benign solid lung nodules with lobulation and spiculation signs, lung adenocarcinomas, and lung squamous cell carcinoma. The technique's effectiveness was improved by using 3-dimensional (3D) computed tomography (CT) images instead of conventional 2-dimensional (2D) images to combine as much information as possible. The model was trained using 352 of the 441 CT image sequences and validated using the rest. The experimental results showed that our model could accurately differentiate between benign lung nodules with lobulation and spiculation signs, lung adenocarcinoma, and squamous cell carcinoma. On the test set, our model achieves an accuracy of 0.9888, precision of 0.9892, recall of 0.9888, and an F1-score of 0.9888, along with a class activation mapping (CAM) visualization of the 3D model. Consequently, our method could be used as a preoperative tool to assist in diagnosing solitary solid lung nodules with lobulation and spiculation signs accurately and provide a theoretical basis for developing appropriate clinical diagnosis and treatment plans for the patients.
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